Mike, Pablo:<div><br></div><div> The Census Bureau shapefiles work with GrADS. Download a shapefile with county lines for a state, say Maryland from</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/cs2000.html#shp">http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/cs2000.html#shp</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Unzip the file, and then</div><div><br></div><div>% opengrads -l</div><div><br></div><div>Open a dataset of your choice, say</div><div><br></div><div>ga-> @ open $GADSET/model </div><div><br></div>
<div>Select the region of interest, for Maryland this is:</div><div><br></div><div>ga-> set lon -80 -75</div><div>ga-> set lat 37 40</div><div><br></div><div>Then display the shapefile:</div><div><br></div><div>ga-> set mpdraw off</div>
<div>ga-> d ps</div><div>ga-> shp_lines cs24_d00</div><div><br></div><div>The output is attached. You will need an OpenGrADS Bundle release for using the shapefile feature. This can be downloaded from sourceforge, more info here:</div>
<div><br></div><div> <a href="http://opengrads.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_the_OpenGrADS_Bundle">http://opengrads.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_the_OpenGrADS_Bundle</a></div><div><br></div><div>You can put all your shapefiles in GADDIR, alongside with the regular map datasets. The shapefile extension is documented here:</div>
<div><br></div><div> <a href="http://opengrads.org/doc/udxt/shape/">http://opengrads.org/doc/udxt/shape/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> Arlindo</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Michael Fiorino <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Michael.Fiorino@noaa.gov">Michael.Fiorino@noaa.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
hi arlindo,<br>
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i got this email from the SOO at miami, pablo... are there shape files<br>
out there? thanks /r mike<br>
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-------- Original Message --------<br>
Subject: Re: Any feedback on county level maps for GrADS?<br>
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:26:10 -0500<br>
From: Pablo Santos <<a href="mailto:Pablo.Santos@noaa.gov">Pablo.Santos@noaa.gov</a>><br>
Organization: National Weather Service, Miami, FL<br>
To: Jeffrey M. Medlin <<a href="mailto:Jeff.Medlin@noaa.gov">Jeff.Medlin@noaa.gov</a>>, Michael Fiorino<br>
<<a href="mailto:Michael.Fiorino@noaa.gov">Michael.Fiorino@noaa.gov</a>>, Brian Etherton <<a href="mailto:etherton@renci.org">etherton@renci.org</a>><br>
References: <<a href="mailto:4B1FFBEF.1010005@noaa.gov">4B1FFBEF.1010005@noaa.gov</a>><br>
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Jeff: I am asking two guys I know have used grads for a long time.<br>
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Mike/Brian, do you guys know of an easy way to add counties to the grads<br>
background maps?<br>
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If you do we would surely appreciate you sharing the info.<br>
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Pablo<br>
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Jeffrey M. Medlin wrote:<br>
> Any feedback on county level maps for GrADS?<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Arlindo da Silva<br><a href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</a><br>
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